WATCH: #Speechless Series No.4 ‘No where are you really from?’

The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence.

Here Rob Berkeley wishes that there was an easier answer to the ‘where are you from?’ question.

“The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he has no mirror, no corroborations of his essential reality; and this means that he has no grasp of the reality of the people around him.” ―James Baldwin from “A Word from Writer Directly to Reader”